Sulfur-rich aquifers rising through limestone at 74 degrees Celsius, unchanged since the Ottoman baths of the sixteenth century.

Barrel-vaulted marble halls and neo-Baroque colonnades designed by Miklos Ybl, standing without major repair since 1881.

Steam room, cold plunge, thermal soak, rest — four stages of the Hungarian bathing protocol repeated across generations.

Hand-fired peacock-turquoise tiles from the Pecs workshop, their eosin lustre glaze still luminous after a century of steam.